Monday, April 21, 2003


mozz & a cup

ok, i think the ideal home mozz recipe might be made with of all things, 3 quarts dried reconstituted milk, and 1 quart half-n-half. also, when heating the cheese in microwave, make it hotter.

heat it 4 or even 5 times; it has to be hot, hot, hot; so you can barely touch it. stretch more than knead -- stretch it gently, even out to as much as a foot, but don't let it snap or break. think taffy. fold it back together on itself like a ribbon and then knead lightly! i'll be trying this myself later next week.

but today's big big -- let's just say huge -- news is that i this morning i attended my first formal coffee tasting, known as a cupping, and with no one less than ken davids, the ultimate coffee guru. . .and a few other notables, like david dallis and jim munson of dallis coffee, steve schulman of kudo beans, as well as steve colten of atlantic, the current president of the scaa.

we sampled various indian coffees. i'll write more about this later. but it was just an incredible experience, one for which i owe many thanks to dallis coffee! they are the greatest. . .later we went out for a fantastic dinner. just all fun: coffee's such a party, doncha know!

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